SEED DISPERSAL. 



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exquisite white flower clusters into grayish -white tufts, which scatter in the 

 autumn gusts into hundreds of arrow-headed, spiral plumes. The achenes 



Fig. 485- 

 Seed distribution of virgin's bower vclematis). 



have plumose styles, and the spiral form of the plume gives a curious twist 

 to the falling seed (fig. 485). 



